Language Systems

by Louis Armand, Arthur T. Bradley, Laurent Milesi

...contemporary theories of structure demand that we confront the question not only of our technological circumstances, nor simply the technologically inflected character of our various methodologies, but the very technological condition that is discourse, and which terms like ecology, economics, genetics, cosmology and cybernetics describe by facets...

Contributors: Arthur Bradley, Laurent Milesi, Louis Armand, Stephen Dougherty, Roy Ascott, Niall Lucy, Christina Ljungberg, Benjamin H. Bratton.

About the editors:

Louis Armand is director of the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other.

Pavel Cernovsky is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, researching "The Limits of Theory / Theory of Limits" in the work of Paul de Man and Jan Mukarovsky at the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. He is the coordinator of a group research grant, "Technicity: A New Critical Paradigm?"

183 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Louis Armand is a writer and visual artist who has lived in Prague since 1994. He has worked as an editor and publisher, and as a subtitles technician at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and is an editor of VLAK magazine. He is the author of eight novels, including Breakfast at Midnight in 2012, "a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka's Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil" (Richard Marshall, 3:AM), CAIRO (Equus Press, 2014; short listed for the Guardian's Not-the-Booker Prize), and THE COMBINATIONS (Equus Press, 2016). Described as "Robert Pinget does Canetti (in drag in Yugoslavia)," Armand's third novel Clair Obscur was published by Equus in 2011. His previous novel, Menudo (Antigen), was described as "unrelenting, a flying wedge, an encyclopaedia of the wasteland, an uzi assault pumping desolation lead... inspiring!" (Thor Garcia, author of The News Clown).